Dark Knight

As I mentioned in the first post of this series, from watching the Dark Knight films, one can get the impression that the soundtracks are largely atmospheric rather than tuneful. But […]

Hans Zimmer worked alone for the trilogy’s final installment instead of collaborating with James Newton Howard, who claimed that, although he had contributed much to the music of these films,

Although the score for The Dark Knight was a collaboration between Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, the composers divided up the music for the two main villains of the film,

Like Batman Begins, the music of The Dark Knight was composed by both Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Of course many themes from the first movie reappear in this

In my last post, I discussed the variations on the most prominent theme in Batman Begins: a two-note motive of D-F for Batman. But there are three other themes that

Watching the movies of the Dark Knight trilogy, it can be easy to come away feeling that the score, by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, is composed of atmospheric